Archives for July 2017

Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Me: You Betcha

Source: Maybe We’ve Been Thinking About the Productivity Slump All Wrong – The New York Times Here is what I wrote To paraphrase a politician, “It’s the education, stupid.” But, don’t we have the greatest universities in the world? Yes, but that doesn’t mean that those universities are doing anything to broadly disseminate knowledge. Our […]

From “Student Consumerism” to “Student Markism”

Clark Kerr famously noted a “…shift from academic merit to student consumerism…”. Since Kerr’s observation (1980) we have shifted from “students” as “consumers” to “students” as easy “marks”, as in a “mark” in a con game. (There are many reasons why so many of them are “easy marks”, but, see David Riesman’s view here.)

As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away – The New York Times

Source: As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away – The New York Times I just had to comment on one aspect of the story. “… Here is the outrageous lie in this whole story: “…’Everybody tells you to go to college, get an education, and everything will be O.K. So […]